Do I treat Glocks like I treat my lawn mowers? No, I treat them worse. I treat my defensive weapons like my fire extinguishers and smoke detector - annual maintenance and I expect them to work when needed

Haverwilde...that's the barrel burners I was talking about.....my Dad had one in his garage....He still tells the story of one cold winter night he went to the garage and got his barrel stove all fire up....and then my oldest brother popped into the garage telling him that Mom wanted him to come and take her to the hospital...she was ready to deliver our younger brother....Dad was mad because Mom didn't tell him she was in labor and he spent all that time getting that fire going...hahahaha!

When we bought our place it came with 2 barrel stoves - 1 in each building. They were very wasteful of wood & took up a lot of space. We replaced them with Quadra-Fire stoves, which are made locally. Much easier on the wood supply. We kept the old stoves for "just in case." The original owner stopped by after a couple of years & asked if he could have one of them back. We said sure - we weren't doing anything with them. So now we've got one barrel stove for "just in case."

At one of the granges where we hold cat clinics, the building is heated with one of those 2-barrel stoves - one on top of the other. I've never paid a lot of attention to it, but it looks like you could build a fire in both stoves - twice the heat. Last time we were there one of the grange ladies stayed the whole day to keep feeding it wood. I don't know if she didn't trust us or just wanted an excuse to sit around with a bunch of kitties.

Do I treat Glocks like I treat my lawn mowers? No, I treat them worse. I treat my defensive weapons like my fire extinguishers and smoke detector - annual maintenance and I expect them to work when needed